strava KOM tracking service

use strava.com? check out the strava KOM tracking service. this will track your KOMs and those segments that you are close to conquering, and if you want, send you an email when someone steals one of your beloved KOMs.

bamcam gps video telemetry

beta version of bamcam. a gps video telemetry program that works on the mac. nice if you have a gps device like a garmin + a video device like a contour or gopro, and what overlay gps data on your video.

the best potato soup on the interweb

not very famous, but unregardless, best on the internet potato soup recipe

a year in gps

plotting a year of gps (2010) collected by bicycle. this video represents roughly 1 million data points collected around the bay area and animated in 1 minute sections.

Motion Detection using Python (PIL)

Motion.py is a motion detection and image compositing tool using the python imaging Library / PIL. The step by step tutorial illustrates how to detect if motion has occured over a set of frames (images) by comparing pixels. you'll learn how to compare color bands, apply a mask, and related smoothing.

bay area water stops

map of water stops and various public drinking fountains around the bay area. useful for cyclists. this is a public map so feel free to add your own, or update an existing entry.

Intelligent Life?

Here's a little stop motion animation.. July 20, 1969 Apollo 11. moon landing? hoax? or coverup? This was shot in 2001 on 16mm film (bolex)

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Version II

This is the same claymation basically, but a little bit longer. The 'digital' conversion on these is of low quality but watchable none the less.

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